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Adnan Oktar
                                       (Harun Yahya)


           food transformed themselves into whales over time. (Charles Darwin,
           The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University
           Press, 1964, p. 184.)
                However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Gregor Mendel
           (1822-84) and verified by the science of genetics, which flourished in
           the twentieth century, utterly demolished the legend that acquired
           traits were passed on to subsequent generations. Thus, natural selec-
           tion fell out of favor as an evolutionary mechanism.



                Neo-Darwinism and mutations
                In order to find a solution, Darwinists advanced the "Modern Syn-
           thetic Theory," or as it is more commonly known, Neo-Darwinism, at
           the end of the 1930s. Neo-Darwinism added mutations, which are dis-
           tortions formed in the genes of living beings due to such external fac-
           tors as radiation or replication errors, as the "cause of favourable vari-
           ations" in addition to natural mutation.

                Today, the model that Darwinists espouse, despite their own
           awareness of its scientific invalidity, is neo-Darwinism. The theory
           maintains that millions of living beings formed as a result of a process
           whereby numerous complex organs of these organisms (e.g., ears,
           eyes, lungs, and wings) underwent "mutations," that is, genetic disor-
           ders. Yet, there is an outright scientific fact that totally undermines this
           theory: Mutations do not cause living beings to develop; on the con-
           trary, they are always harmful.


         Since the beginning of the
                                                                    leg
                                    antennae
         twentieth century, evolu-
         tionary biologists have
         sought examples of benefi-                  eyes
         cial mutations by creating
         mutant flies. But these
         efforts have always resul-
         ted in sick and deformed
         creatures. The top picture
         shows the head of a nor-
         mal fruit fly, and the pictu-
         re on the left shows the
         head of a fruit fly with legs
         coming out of it, the result             mouth
         of mutation.

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